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Noel7 · ‎03-09-2010

@hckynutjohn wrote:
Hi Noel,

Is the "No Child Left Behind" policy still in place? Years ago both my niece and her brother quit teaching because of this policy in their school district. She became an attorney and he went into skilled trades.

My Race Car partner was also a teacher across the river. He quit for the same reason and became an over-the-road truck driver. They all said it wasn't worth the battles with parents and their superiors.

None them regretted their decision.

hckynut(john)

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Hi john @hckynutjohn

According to what I found, it's gone, gone, gone.

MyGirlsMom · ‎03-09-2010

@hckynutjohn wrote:
Hi Noel,

Is the "No Child Left Behind" policy still in place? Years ago both my niece and her brother quit teaching because of this policy in their school district. She became an attorney and he went into skilled trades.

My Race Car partner was also a teacher across the river. He quit for the same reason and became an over-the-road truck driver. They all said it wasn't worth the battles with parents and their superiors.

None them regretted their decision.

hckynut(john)

@hckynutjohn I'm surprised your news channel didn't cover the story about "No Child Left Behind" being done away with just last week by the president.

Keep Your Face To The Sunshine and You Will Not See The Shadow

Noel7 · ‎03-09-2010

@LTT1 wrote:
Students are "being graduated" because schools do not have the space to hold all of the students who did not REALLY earn high school level credits.

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I haven't seen those reports, loves, do you have references to studies showing that is the reason?

Noel7 · ‎03-09-2010

@151949 wrote:
Sadly, though, these days a high school education alone does not buy a kid very much of a future.

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I agree. Some can still make a good living or even a great one, but for the most part, no.

LTT1 · ‎03-09-2010

@Noel7
Thanks I am interested to see how they solve this one! Will read. The NCLB act was in name only in TX (IMO) because at the SAME time state-mandated yearly assessment was instituted thereby causing CLB (Children left behind). I think it has been pretty much a mess. We need vocational training, IMO

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Noel7 · ‎03-09-2010

@LTT1 wrote:
@Noel7
Thanks I am interested to see how they solve this one! Will read. The NCLB act was in name only in TX (IMO) because at the SAME time state-mandated yearly assessment was instituted thereby causing CLB (Children left behind). I think it has been pretty much a mess. We need vocational training, IMO

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I agree. We have an excellent high school for vocational training, a friend of ours taught there for several years.

hckynutjohn · ‎06-15-2015

@MyGirlsMom wrote:
@hckynutjohn wrote:
Hi Noel,

Is the "No Child Left Behind" policy still in place?

@hckynutjohn I'm surprised your news channel didn't cover the story about "No Child Left Behind" being done away with just last week by the president.

I don't watch our local news. Since we had to start paying "City Taxes", live outside the city limits and can't vote in City Elections? I lost interest in what they.

I DVR 4 Fox nightly shows and didn't hear it mentioned on any of them. Watched morning news also, didn't hear a thing.

hckynut(john)

Noel7 · ‎03-09-2010

@hckynutjohn wrote:

I don't watch our local news. Since we had to start paying "City Taxes", live outside the city limits and can't vote in City Elections? I lost interest in what they.

I DVR 4 Fox nightly shows and didn't hear it mentioned on any of them. Watched morning news also, didn't hear a thing.

hckynut(john)

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@hckynutjohn

Mix in other channels, you will know more. No one channel has it all. You can also read the news online.

I strongly suggest setting up google news as your home page or just another site you visit. They have reports from MANY sources, including Fox, plus you can set up a section for your hometown news.

Also! You can choose news alerts by subject. I get science news, among others, you could get an entire section of the latest tech news or whatever.

Cookie2025 · ‎03-10-2010

@hckynutjohn wrote:
Hi Noel,

Is the "No Child Left Behind" policy still in place? Years ago both my niece and her brother quit teaching because of this policy in their school district. She became an attorney and he went into skilled trades.

My Race Car partner was also a teacher across the river. He quit for the same reason and became an over-the-road truck driver. They all said it wasn't worth the battles with parents and their superiors.

None them regretted their decision.

hckynut(john)

I believe No Child Left Behind has been met its end.

Cookie2025 · ‎03-10-2010

@LTT1 wrote:
Students are "being graduated" because schools do not have the space to hold all of the students who did not REALLY earn high school level credits.

Yep - I do know of two Kids who where pushed through. It actually gave one of the Kids the self-confidence to attend trade school.